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Shooting Challenge: Gravity

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2:00PM November 19, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Welcome to The Gizmodo Shooting Challenge, where Giz readers get to pit their photographic skills against each other for the admiration of their editors on a dedicated theme each week. This week’s challenge: Gravity. It’s the force we can’t escape — but representing it in image form opens up lots of possibilities. More »

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The Japan Earthquake Weakened Japan’s Gravity

2:00AM October 8, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The Japan earthquake in March was big. Obviously. But recent satellite analysis by researchers reveal it was so big that it actually affected the gravitational field surrounding Japan. More »

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Space Travel Near Impossible As Space Sex Is Too Hard

12:15PM October 4, 2011 | Casey Chan

Human space travel! Already difficult because of the gnarly technology and expensive dollars it costs, but even more difficult because humans just can’t stay alive long enough for interstellar trips. We need to, like, have sex to procreate and raise kids and stuff. More »

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How Dogs Seem To Break Gravity With Every Sip Of Water

11:40PM May 25, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

High-speed and x-ray video of dogs lapping up water has shown how they seemingly bend gravity and force the water into their mouths. Humans could learn to manipulate their tongues in similar ways, but it’d be a difficult, unrewarding challenge. More »

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NASA Gravity Experiment Proves Einstein Was Right

12:40PM May 6, 2011 | Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Like a beach chair sagging under a sunbather’s weight, the fabric of spacetime does indeed warp around the mass of the Earth – just as Albert Einstein predicted. And like a swimmer moving through the water, the rotation of the Earth affects the movement of spacetime itself. A gravity probe whose origins date to the era before human spaceflight has finally proved general relativity right, according to NASA. More »

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Gullible Brits Believe You Can See Gravity, That Lightsabres Exist

10:20AM March 17, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

You’ve got to wonder about the sanity of some of the 3000 surveyed people who believed that lightsabres actually exist – and that memory erasers, in the style of the Men In Black neuraliser, are being used. More »

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This Intergalactic Telephone Would Be Powered By The Sun

5:00AM December 20, 2010 | Jack Loftus

In the far future, humans might communicate across great interstellar distances—light years, in fact—using an immense intergalactic communications array powered by the Sun. More »

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Superhero-Style Spacesuits Could Provide Vital Compression For Astronauts

10:30AM October 31, 2010 | Laurie J. Schmidt - Pop Sci

This new Spiderman-style spacesuit may not win astronauts a spot in the fashion hall of fame, but it could help keep their bones intact during long spaceflights. More »

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Lockheed Using Gravity To Spot ‘Subterranean Threats’

12:40PM July 16, 2010 | Katie Drummond - Wired

The military could soon be hunting for terror threats using detailed maps of the planet’s subterranean territory – thanks to aerial vehicles that tap into the “anomalous gravity signature[s] ” of structures built beneath the earth’s surface. More »

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This Is How Earth’s Gravity Field Looks

7:20AM June 30, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

BBC says this is this “is one of the most exquisite views we have ever had of the Earth”. I would say it is one of the most fascinating, as it shows how Earth’s gravity field changes across the globe. More »